Join Painted Bride Quarterly on June 11 at 8 p.m. for a special “Happy Birthday” reading at the Perch Pub (1345 Locust St.) by poets Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Ocean Vuong, and Ian Davisson, plus DJ Electrostani bringing on the bhangra! No cover. Drink and food specials. Totally heart-breaking poems. Like, purgative heartbreak. It’ll be like Fellini meets Wong Kar-Wei. […]
News & Events
PBQ Cover Artist Featured in New York Times
Photographer Myoung Ho Lee was featured in the New York Times recently for his awe-inspiring series entitled “Treescapes.” Does his work look a little familiar? That’s because we knew about him first! In fact, one of Lee’s magical photographs lights the cover of our Print Annual 6. When we first came upon Lee’s work, we […]
Hannah Gittler on Nathan Leslie’s Recent Visit
One of my favorite events at last week’s Week of Writing was,”Journey and Coming of Age in the Fiction of Nathan Leslie,” featuring a reading and Q+A with the author of “The Tall Tale of Tommy Twice.” As an aspiring writer, this was a rare chance for me to gather as much information and advice […]
P&P a Full House at May’s Slam
O, how our hearts soared when we got to the Pen & Pencil Club for our last Slam and the place was already packed! Malwina talked about her period, but only because there’s an app for that, and no need to “throw your genitals into the whole mess.” The first round found many, many pieces […]
May Perch Pub Celebrates Lynn Levin’s Miss Plastique
This recap is long overdue, but even our Week of Writing tizzy could not make us forget May’s exceptional Perch Pub reading! May’s Perch Pub celebrated Lynn Levin’s newest book of poetry, Miss Plastique, with a reading by Hayden Saunier and Lynn herself. Kathy Volk Miller led the introductions, citing not only Hayden’s literary accomplishments, […]
Slamming Our Way Into Summer!
On May 23 at 7:30 p.m., we will host another memorable Slam, Bam, Thank You Ma’am at the Pen & Pencil Club, with our special guest, Malwina Andruczyk. She will leave us in stitches (from laughter, of course!) before handing over the mic to Andrew Keller, who will get the boisterous crowd to put down […]
Our Newest PBQ Family Member
We don’t know if this is really info that belongs on our newsfeed, but we don’t care: our brave and fearless senior editor, Rachel Wenrick, did some of her best creative work last night: she gave birth to Luc Victor Taillandier at 3:37 a.m.
New iPad App Brings Together Poetry, Baseball, and Art
Back in March, we mentioned Kevin Varrone’s upcoming app, a poem sequence about baseball, history, and Philadelphia. We are proud to announce that this Perch Pub veteran has successfully launched Box Score: An Autobiography, which is now available for download at the App Store. “Box Score is a completely free, easy-to-use app for anyone who loves baseball, […]
Storytelling through Performance, with Andrew Panebianco
First Person Arts Grand Slam performance winner, Andrew Panebianco, came to Drexel yesterday to perform for and work with Drexel students. Needless to say, this self-proclaimed “half-forgetful, giant child” brought a lot of learning, and a lot of laughs. Proving his own assertion that “a story is an active performance,” Panebianco opened the afternoon by […]
Andrew Panebianco to Lead Mini Story Slam for Students
First Person Arts Grand Slam performance winner, Andrew Panebianco will visit Drexel today, reading for two writing classes, as well as engaging the group of students in a mini story slam of their own. The goal is to not only give students to opportunity to listen to the works of a pro, but be able […]